"Wasted" seconds to prove that you hated Joselu while he was here. Yet now he's being weaponized as some sort of "our guy" against Mbappe. The support for this team has been absolutely weird this season, i swear.
Where's the "always shooting straight at the keeper" guy/gal at, you know for him/her this "testing the goalkeeper" is irrelevant and can't be considered a "good game".
Shooting at the keeper from bad angles isn't a bad shot. The angles are small so unless the shot is perfect, it's going to either go wide or hit the keeper. Even on the goal, literally had a tiny window to score and Mbappe did this time. Where i start having problems are shots with a large window where you shoot it straight at the keeper. That's annoying. One thing I've noticed is that opposing players no longer overreact to Mbappe's intentions. So he got into the habit of making his first intention a fake and then going the other way... now, he just needs to attack that first intention until they respect it again. The fakes are unnecessary.
Talk about overanalyzing. If every shot would be perfectly placed and excellently thought out, we'd have games running up to 7-9 scores every week.
Reminder that the biggest flop in the history of the club, who is forever finished as a top player and should be sold as soon as possible, is currently 3rd top scorer in the league.
Really? he is joint third with Budimir playing for osasuna for god sake with double the shots lol the levels of mbappe. He not even been top 15 player in league based of performances, no matter how many stats pad goals he has gotten.
You must be talking about me and no, I never said "keeper", I said "defender." There's a difference, you know.
Yeah. More misery please. Nothing positive at all. He scored? Let's complain about the goal itself. This is simply no fun at all. The guy is on pace to have a +25 g/a season and we're acting like the ceiling is falling. Insane.
Its not misery i just expect far more, he's goals so far have mostly meaningless. I already answered this on the other page, i said he will end up with 20 to 25 goals as he will get lots of chances vs weaker teams etc. as he has been already doing. Let me ask you a question, if he ends the season scoring 25 goals with the same performances he has been putting up so far and being a complete flop in big game like has been, are you going to call that a good season just because its "25 goals" ??
Why are you being disingenious? You know very well this is way below the level that was expected from him. Is this supposed to be the player we spent half a decade chasing like he's the second coming of Jesus?
He's saying that it's ok to expect Mbappe to score 50 goals and dominate at Real Madrid... but it's also not the end of the world if he scores 25+ goals instead and struggles (by his standards) during the first season. 25+ goals is a good (not great) season for any other 9, so the sky isn't falling. If this is the floor, the floor isn't that bad. Shades of grey. Not black and white. That's 4x4s point.
The era of Ronaldo / Messi completely ruined perception of some people. And people forget this is his first year in a new league and country. He has been poor for sure, but completely shitting on him after he had a good game is just disingenuous.
Ok. So Zidane was terrible during his entire first season other than the last month. Bale sucked horribly until February of his first season. Modric was so meh that he got benched by Mourinho for a long while. Etc. Zidane was a world-record signing. Bale cost 100 million 10 years ago. Modric cost 35 million euros, which was a lot for a CM at the time (CFs like Falcao and Cavani were going for 40-50 million). Should Real Madrid have given up on them.
It would be one thing if the team was playing great and Mbappe was playing poorly. But the team is playing poorly as a whole. His performance has some to do with him and some to do with the overall team imo.
Obviously he is not matching expectations, no one is saying that. But the reactions comparing him to Hazard and Kaka are undeserved, and the proclamations that he is finished and should be sold as soon as possible are hysterical.
More nonsense. Bet you said the same thing about Zidane and Modric for the 6/7 months of their career at Madrid. Then backpedaled
Funny Mbappe scoring a key goal vs Getafe and then missing 2-3 good chances was bashed as big issue while now scoring the 3rd goal vs Girona with a good finish is brushed off as "stat padding".
Mbappe interview snippet re transfer to Real Madrid: "What's the point of joining the greatest club in the world if the cost is the career of your brother? I told Ethan if he needed me to stay in France and renew with PSG, I'd do it. But he told me that he was fine and that I should leave." PSG weaponized Ethan Mbappe both in 2021 and this past year FYI. That's as low as it gets. It almost worked again though. Lille giving Ethan Mbappe an offer saved the day. Scum.
I saw some quotes from the interview. Not as bad as I thought it'd be. Still seems somewhat PR but I don't blame him. He pretty much confirmed without saying so that Nasser is absolutely insane lol.